M&D - Chapter 19-21 - The Father

[David Morris]

I'm confused, but amused too.

On Friday, April 3, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why that turn in the common phrase? So Pynchon writes that Mason "invested
> Precious Sleep" and don't we expect that Mason *Lost* or *Wasted* or
> *Spent* Precious *Time* and not that he Invested Precious Sleep. Mason did
> not invest Time or Money. Time is money and money time. But Sleep is
> Precious and is invested when one loses it, wastes it, spends it by not
> sleeping. Hamlet would like this riddle. Had he, when a child who posed
> questions about the World wasted his father's time/money? What good the
> education the Father spent his time/money on if the Son can't explain the
> the theft of days to the boys in the Pub?
>
> The Theory of the Leisure Class
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> AND
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> What Money Wants.
>
> http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=21847
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eromberg at mac.com');>> wrote:
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>> There is a bit of role reversal at the bottom of page 191, betwixt Mason
>> and his father.
>> «He now began to quiz himself insomniac with this, wond’ring if his
>> father had struggled thus with Mason’s own earlier questions about the
>> World. He invested Precious Sleep in the Question, and saw not a Farthing’s
>> Dividend"»
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>> > 30. mar. 2015 kl. 20.48 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eromberg at mac.com');>>:
>> >
>> > This chapter is a real close up on Mason. From the shoe-buckle to
>> internal dialogue and memories of his father.
>> > On page 191 there are two hints that lead us to think Mason
>> (regularly?) took a beating from his father, right?
>> >
>> > But Leather and Bone? Should it not’ve said Leather and Flesh?
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